Things You Consider to be 'True'

[chimpburgers]

There are some people who no matter how much you try you'll never be able to get through to them because of their confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance. Try showing these people all the raw data, charts, statistics, and evidence you can find that supports your claim and that completely disproves what they believe in, and no matter what you do, they will still cling onto their beliefs and try to make up all sorts of straw man arguments and ways to spin things so that they think that you made those facts up or that they're the ones that know everything and not you. I run into this all the time when I'm trying to have a debate with someone whether it be on another forum, YouTube or in emails.

The only way that they can ever have their minds changed is if they reach that conclusion on their own because they decided to as a result of their own personal experiences, and even then, there will still be some that will get themselves fucked over and over again and not have a clue that they are being lied to or conned. I believe that everyone has experienced the Dunning-Kruger effect at one point or another.

 

[AnOminous]

There are some people who no matter how much you try you'll never be able to get through to them because of their confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.

I used to get frustrated and try to argue with them and shit. Now I just laugh at them, or if I feel like a and it's possible, set them up to fail and laugh at them even more when they do.

 

[Ian Brandon Anderson]

Hatred breeds hatred.

If I hate something, it makes it so much easier for it to hate me. Vice versa as well.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Mankind is both evil and good.
Mankind is evil since it must consume all, become more evil by creating more weapons and destroy all that opposes it. But Man can be good, because their are individuals that detest violence, try to compromise in peace and find ways to limit it's gluttony on resources. but this good will always be in minority and be taken down by the evil men who want their gluttonous power over their long term survival and the survival of those who serve his food in silver platter.
The good men must find new homes in space since we are almost sucking this planet dry from resources thanks to overpopulation and find better alternative forms of fuel. but the evil man would rather keep his profits on petroleum.
One day, Humanity will reach the stars and keep expanding over the universe. and even if we will be a massive soulless empire, their will still be a sense of peace and humanity on those small individuals who live simple lives.

 

[Olhelm]

There is goodness in man. There is also loathing. One cannot exist without the other.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

people always beg the question when it comes to ethical value unless explicitly attempting to avoid it

 

[Roger Rabbit]

I consider racism to only be used as an argument ender and nothing else. Somebody says something the other person doesn't like, they say they were racist, conversation over.

 

[RepQuest]

I consider racism to only be used as an argument ender and nothing else. Somebody says something the other person doesn't like, they say they were racist, conversation over.

That depends on the subject.

 

[nad7155]

look at the big picture, humanity is very consistently improving.

In some ways, yes.

But if you look at the bigger picture, nothing changes.

Most people in power will abuse it in some way.

From the small town cop getting free coffee, to the career politician getting kickbacks.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

In some ways, yes.

But if you look at the bigger picture, nothing changes.

Most people in power will abuse it in some way.

From the small town cop getting free coffee, to the career politician getting kickbacks.

If you look at the big picture nothing can be said of humanity. We have been around for so little time that it is impossible to make any accurate judgement. Although many people might claim that 12000 years is a long time it is infinitesimal in geological time. Although we may in the year 2015 be mature as a species it is very unlikely that we are so and in order to claim so is to use an extremely small sample size which is too small to have any use. Maybe after 1000 years of no significant difference from 2015 we could say that humanity has reached a stable social orientation but even that would be a little to impulsive. We can never know whether we are at the end of history and to attempt to claim that we are or even to claim any knowledge of the end of history is a narcissistic manifestation of the frailty of the human psyche. Accepting that one doesn't know and can never know is the important thing. We may never know whether we are improving or staying the same because both of those statements cannot be properly supported.

Spoiler: long nietzsche quote

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an
abyss.

A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a
dangerous trembling and halting.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is
lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING.

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are
the over-goers.

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows
of longing for the other shore.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down
and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth
of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that
the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the
Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh
he his own down-going.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going,
and an arrow of longing.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be
wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the
bridge.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for
the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a
virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling
to.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give
back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then
asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?"--for he is willing to succumb.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always
doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones:
for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must
succumb through the wrath of his God.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through
a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all
things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only
the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark
cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and
succumb as heralds.

Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the
lightning, however, is the SUPERMAN.--

 

[OtterParty]

α > β > ω

 

[Holdek]

From the small town cop getting free coffee,

That's almost the definition of "small picture."

 

[Marvin]

Although many people might claim that 12000 years is a long time it is infinitesimal in geographical time.

No one gives a shit about rocks.

 

[Ruin]

Nihilism is fucking stupid. It's the philosophical equivalent of shitting yourself and doing nothing.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Nihilism is fucking stupid. It's the philosophical equivalent of shitting yourself and doing nothing.

Nihilism is caused by an overcompensation to begging the question in value. One realizes that previously one has not properly supported ones value judgements and instead of attempting to give we supported value judgements one simply refuses to make value judgements.

 

[DuskEngine]

Nihilism is fucking stupid. It's the philosophical equivalent of shitting yourself and doing nothing.

If you're a nihilist and you haven't killed yourself, you're not a nihilist.

 

[YI 457]

Spoiler: This.

 

[DuskEngine]

You and I are things made out of parts.

 

[AnOminous]

Nihilism is fucking stupid. It's the philosophical equivalent of shitting yourself and doing nothing.

Nihilism is an entirely rational analysis of the fact that there is no objective basis or intrinsic meaning to existence.

I suppose it would be stupid to make that the entire basis of a philosophy, but it is certainly not stupid to address this issue.

If you're a nihilist and you haven't killed yourself, you're not a nihilist.

That doesn't make sense. If you're an actual nihilist, then it doesn't matter in the least what you do. Hedonism would be one response to the lack of objective meaning.

Of course, most people actually calling themselves "nihilists" think it's about dressing up in black and whining about how dismal everything is. Perhaps those people should kill themselves.

Nietzsche is often accused of being a nihilist, largely because of his edgelord followers, most of whom don't even understand him. He was actually an anti-nihilist, but he grappled with the problems presented by the issue.

Perhaps the kind of "nihilist" you mean is someone like Cioran, the kind of nihilism that could be summed up as antinatalism. However, as Cioran himself points out, if the problem is existence, suicide doesn't solve it. Simply having been born is the problem, and that doesn't go away with suicide.

 

[drtoboggan]

I believe in science and reason as means of making sense of the apparent chaos to the universe. I also strongly believe religions' sole purpose is a tool for comfort, not an end in and of itself. However, if religion does yield some deeper answer, it warrants another look. I have yet to find this though.
Outside of that, I don't believe in a universal meaning of life. For now it appears subjective, a personal thing. For me, it is the acquisition of knowledge, humanism, and happiness.